SIG Combibloc Inc. has appointed Ben Hamer as the company’s new President and CEO. Previously he was managing director of Stork Mexico.

Big-D Construction completed work on the first food processing plant for Slim-Fast Foods Co. in the west.

Food processors prevailed in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, when the panel recently tabled a tough proposal.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service has launched a new notification system that will provide electronic status reports on testing samples taken from meat, poultry and egg product establishments.

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A proposed regulation by the U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) that would require meatpackers to toss an entire carcass if related organs contained unacceptably high levels of residue is akin to throwing the baby out with the proverbial bath water, critics of the rule contend.

Columbus, Ohio-based White Castle hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony for their latest meat processing facility in Zanesville, Ohio.

Supplier BOC used the occasion of September's International Baking Industry Exposition in Las Vegas to roll out a new cryogenic freezer for bakers that combines high freezing efficiency with significant improvements in dehydration rates.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that it will increase Foreign Animal Disease (FAD) surveillance in the U.S. in the wake of September's terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and New York City's World Trade Center.